On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Len Jellicoe wrote:

> Hi'
> Got out to see the WHITE TAILED KITE on Tuesday and started
> wondering.
> You people down around Olympia, I think, had a sighting a few weeks
> back. Is it still there?

we have several...as many as 20 individuals have been sighted
both adults and immatures..


Or is it up here now? I know it would be hard
> to verify but the one here has a few brown streaks on its' chest in
> front of the black patches on the wings. They are very faint. Did
> anyone notice this on the bird that was in Washington?


the brown streaking indicates a bird in immature plumage..
which figures..it's trying to find it's own niche.

Tom